Here are the great minds of Western civilization and their pivotal ideas, from Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Freud. Richard Tarnas performs the near-miracle of describing profound philosophical concepts simply but without simplifying them. Ten years in the making and already hailed as a classic, "The Passion of the Western Mind" is truly a comp...(展开全部)

[This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' and the 'radically changing world' of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and scholarly readers alike....Allows readers to grasp the big picture of Western culture for the first time. SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Here are the great minds of Western civilization and t...(展开全部)

史普罗 (R.C. Sproul, 1939-2017) 美国神学家,阿姆斯特丹自由大学博士，怀特菲尔德神学院博士，曾任教于美国改革宗神学院和诺克斯神学院，林格尼尔事工 (Ligonier Ministries) 创办人。

人脑由850亿个神经元组成，它们由超过100万亿个突触连接。一个多世纪以来，各种各样的研究人员一直在寻找一种语言，该语言可以用来捕捉这些神经元的工作原理以及它们如何交流的本质，以及这些交流如何产生思想，观念和行为。他们正在寻找的语言是数学，如果没有它，我们将无法像今天一样理解大脑。在《心灵模型》中，作者和计算神经科学家Grace Lindsay解释了数学模型如何使科学家理解和描述大脑的许多过程，包括决策，感觉处理，量化记忆等。她向读者介绍了现代神经科学中最重要的概念，并强调了当数学建模的抽象世界与生物学的凌乱细节碰撞时出现的紧张关系。思维模型的每一章都侧重于已在神经科学的特定领域中应用的数学工具，从最简单的大脑构造物-单个神经元-到相互作用的神经元回路，整个大脑区域甚至行为的过程，不断发展。那大脑命令。此外，格蕾丝（Grace）还研究了该领域的历史，...(展开全部)

Dazzling in scale, diversity and detail, the world never ceases to open our eyes and captivate our curiosity. Ever since the earliest cave paintings, humans have looked at this Earth that is our home and endeavored to understand it. This expansive visual atlas presents the most exciting, creative and inspiring ways of explaining the world in information graphics. Divided into f...(展开全部)

From "one of America's most courageous young journalists" (NPR) and the author of the blockbuster #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Brain on Fire comes a propulsive narrative history investigating the 50-year-old mystery behind a dramatic experiment that changed the course of modern medicine. For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness--how do you diagnose...(展开全部)

"The magnum opus of one of America's most respected military historians, "The Art of War in the Western World" has earned its place as the standard work on how the three major operational components of war - tactics, logistics, and strategy - have evolved and changed over time. This monumental work encompasses 2,500 years of military history, from infantry combat in ancient Gre...(展开全部)

In this book, Lee draws on that wealth of experience and depth of insight to offer his views on today’s world and what it might look like in 20 years. This is no dry geopolitical treatise. Nor is it a thematic account of the twists and turns in global affairs. Instead, in this broad-sweep narrative that takes in America, China, Asia and Europe, he parses their society, probes t...(展开全部)

In a landmark work of history, Russell Shorto presents astonishing information on the founding of our nation and reveals in riveting detail the crucial role of the Dutch in making America what it is today. In the late 1960s, an archivist in the New York State Library made an astounding discovery: 12,000 pages of centuries-old correspondence, court cases, legal contracts, and ...(展开全部)